I'm center not left or right..... I agree with some of their polocies... but other are just causing harm and painWhen they were warned that they would by idependent bodies before they were implemented....
The one that springs to mind is the bedroom tax
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Mon 19 Aug 2013, 14:30,
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The one that springs to mind is the bedroom tax
Ima just mentionReinhart Rogoff
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Mon 19 Aug 2013, 14:31,
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that's easy for you to say
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for the benefit of anyone who hasn't been following the story,the government took their economic policy of austerity from an economic research paper that claimed that GDP growth would suddenly plummet if national debt to GDP ratio went above 90%. The paper wasn't peer reviewed, and only turned out to be complete bollocks when an economics student tried to replicate the results, and found that they had made simple mistakes in their Excel spreadsheet.
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yeh, it seems like doing cuts now is the logical thing to help but thenyou'd think that an extra half hour in bed would logically make you feel better but it actually just makes you feel more tired
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Mon 19 Aug 2013, 14:47,
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it doesn't seem like the logical thing to dowhen you consider the fact that money goes round in circles and doesn't just get destroyed when it is spent.
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well no but it seems the logical thing to do if all the politicians and half the newspaperskeep telling you that it is the logical thing to do and you don't bother to stop to think too much about it
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Mon 19 Aug 2013, 14:52,
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no, i meant the name is easy for you to saypersonally, i'd find it a bit of a mouthful
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worst scooby doo impression ever
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The positive note in there is surprising.What tory policies do you agree with?
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Mon 19 Aug 2013, 14:35,
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I'm not going to engage in an argument on the subject....because you'll just disagree with me one way or the other whatever I say because you're more to the left or right of me, that's just polotics, and it tends to get sorted in the middle...
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OK, I was just curious.You are my cocitizen and have a laid-back attitude to many things, and I am intrigued to know your opinions.
Wasn't planning to have a heated debate, just to raise one eyebrow and say "fascinating" in the voice of Leonard Nimoy and probably leave it at that.
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Wasn't planning to have a heated debate, just to raise one eyebrow and say "fascinating" in the voice of Leonard Nimoy and probably leave it at that.
I was just trying to avoid a srz bzniz debate that would go no where :-)Don't get me wrong, I absolutely hate this bunch with a vengence, as I orinally said I think they're evil, but do believe some pain is nesesery to get our situation sorted, and difficult decissions have to be made, If I stated just one measure they'd taken that I thought was a good one, others here would either agree or disagree more or less strongly, and a pointless debate that noone could win would ensue, when there quite obviously is no clear cut solution to solve the problems we have, we just have people with different and opposing ideas on how to solve the problem. they're poloticians and we put them where they are to do the debating for us.
Soz for the spelling!
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Mon 19 Aug 2013, 15:11,
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Soz for the spelling!
The national debt is a curious thingmake a one man crazy, make another man sing.
Standing at some £1200000000000, or a similar amount. Not sure what we're going to do about that, or indeed whether we even have to, given that an enormous national debt seems to be a normal thing for any modern government. But Greece's apparently got too enormous. It's all very strange.
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Mon 19 Aug 2013, 15:19,
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Standing at some £1200000000000, or a similar amount. Not sure what we're going to do about that, or indeed whether we even have to, given that an enormous national debt seems to be a normal thing for any modern government. But Greece's apparently got too enormous. It's all very strange.
Could always try transfering it to a credit card with zero percent on transfers!
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it stopped being funny a while back Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis,
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